Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Amazon.Com and Memoirs For Kimya

Its been two years since the launch of Daughters are Diamonds, and I am finally ready to launch my experimental manuscript, a blog to book, or a blook even. There are some writings and reflections compiled along with poetry written in various flavours of writings along the years since I began blogging. And of course, I wanted to create something beautiful to commemorate writing as a journey of choice. As a cathartic one sometimes. And a rather promising and appreciative one at most.

"Memoirs for Kimya" is ready. Also, it is available for pre-order with Amazon.Com along with Daughters are Diamonds. Search the titles or my name at the Amazon website and the titles will show up. The official launch of M4K will take place this weekend at the JoZi Book Fair. Venue: Market Theatre Complex, Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg... Dates: Saturday 8August from 9am-6pm and Sunday the same. My booklaunch/reading will take place at the BookLaunch Island on Women's Day, the 9Aug at 2pm. ALL WELCOME :)

Shafinaaz Demystified

Shafinaaz is a sociologist, artist and poet based in Johannesburg, SA. She is the author of several works of non-fiction and fiction, and has been listed in HayFestival's Africa39 category of top 39 authors in Africa under the age of 40 at the London Book Fair 2014. Also see www.shafinaaz.co.za

Extracts from the Book

"It may well be that the restrictions imposed... are reinforced and magnified... by structures that institutionalise both Western and indigenous elements of patriarchy. All come together to disadvantage women vis-á-vis men. But it is also true that such disadvantages exist in all societies. The degree and type of disadvantage differs from culture to culture, but the fact of disadvantage is universal and certainly not unique to Islamic (or even Indian) societies." (Callaway & Creevey,1994 cited in Hassim,2007)